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Thomas Sowell: I’ll Take Gingrich over Romney
NEWSMAX ^ | Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011 06:05 PM | NewsMax

Posted on 12/21/2011 7:34:38 PM PST by RedMDer

Economist and conservative author Thomas Sowell says voters should disregard Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s “baggage” and support the former House speaker because defeating President Obama in 2012 is crucial to America’s future.

Sowell cites Gingrich’s solid record of “concrete accomplishments,” which he argues makes him a stronger candidate than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who pushed through one of the liberal healthcare programs in the nation.
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He concludes: “Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Newt Gingrich’s past, rather than on the nation’s future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: ‘If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.’ If that means a second term for Barack Obama, then it means we’ve lost, big time.”

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KEYWORDS: 2012; gingrich; nevernewt; newt
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To: Nodems2000
What has he said or done that causes you to say he’s a lib?

He's kidding. He's predicting what the anti-Newts were about to say in 5,4,3,2...

21 posted on 12/21/2011 7:55:18 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Michael Barnes

Yes take control of the Senate and more gains in the House.
Take our Country back to the right path.
Lets start there. Also fix our education system and stop the Marxists from teaching the next generation of Marxists Ideals under the guise of inclusion such as homosexual rights and moral relativism to defeat us from within.


22 posted on 12/21/2011 7:59:40 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Parley Baer

Hooah


23 posted on 12/21/2011 8:00:48 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: ez

I second that.

Sowell talks common sense.

If Santorum or Bachmann cannot pull an upset in Iowa, then I will fully back Gingrich. Plus I will try my best to convince all who read my blog at the ChicoER to support Newt.

For now however, I am still praying for a real conservative win for us in Iowa via Santorum or Bachmann.

As I said before, I have never ever voted for any abortion supporting candidates in all my life, and I do not plan to in 2012.

So if Romney wins the nomination I will vote for a third party pro life candidate.


24 posted on 12/21/2011 8:02:13 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: RedMDer
Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Newt Gingrich’s past, rather than on the nation’s future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: ‘If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost

Jim Robinson and Thomas Sowell are right about Newt!


25 posted on 12/21/2011 8:02:28 PM PST by Bobalu (even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I just watched it and I loved it.... Romney is going to learn the definition of regret and Newt is going to teach it to him.


26 posted on 12/21/2011 8:05:16 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Bobalu

bttt


27 posted on 12/21/2011 8:07:27 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Nodems2000

Please read it again.... it was sarcastic. If you read on, you’ll see I really like and respect the man.


28 posted on 12/21/2011 8:08:50 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: ez

Thank you... somedays I wonder... LOL


29 posted on 12/21/2011 8:09:56 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Bobalu

I am not sure what Newt would think of it, but I really like that comparison. ;>)


30 posted on 12/21/2011 8:11:52 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: RedMDer

It’s a “political opportunist vs. politcal whore” kinda thing.


31 posted on 12/21/2011 8:12:19 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (let establishment heads explode)
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To: Bobalu

I can only figure out who 3/4 of those people are.


32 posted on 12/21/2011 8:15:00 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: RedMDer

Milt “accomplished” RomneyCare, RomneyMarriage and many other things. LOL


33 posted on 12/21/2011 8:15:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: RedMDer

I’d take Newt over Romney as well.


34 posted on 12/21/2011 8:15:09 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: RedMDer

I’d take Sowell over Newt.


35 posted on 12/21/2011 8:16:07 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Bobalu

I wish all these so called conservative pundits, could find a shred of honesty in the attacks against Newt. We are being force fed Romney. They have denegrated every person I liked so Romney can be the “last man standing”.
It seems like he will be the “establishment” candidate, and no others will be permitted entrance to “the dance”.
I thought I trusted some of these pundits, but I’m not so sure any longer.
The people I like seem to have a core belief that was perceptible, I can’t say that about Romney. Again, too slick for my taste.
Friend of a friend who did his makeup for one of the events said he had an ego/attitude that was not very pleasant. I.E. Above all the little people. Don’t need another one like that.


36 posted on 12/21/2011 8:16:27 PM PST by pm58590
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To: Repeal The 17th

Gingrich, Franklin, Churchill, Grant

I guess Ulysses S. Grant was the tricky one :-)


37 posted on 12/21/2011 8:17:36 PM PST by Bobalu (even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
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To: RedMDer

I am in the Gingrich court. The Media can get bent.


38 posted on 12/21/2011 8:18:09 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: RedMDer

I’ll take a Conservative over Gingrich AND Romney.


39 posted on 12/21/2011 8:18:28 PM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: Bobalu

I wouldn’t include Grant in that group.


40 posted on 12/21/2011 8:22:40 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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